Ratings for Saturday Night Live highest ratings in a decade

Outside of a cadre of furious tweets, Alec Baldwin hasn't heard a peep from the man he's been portraying for the past eight months on Saturday Night Live.

But Baldwin, who's enjoying another career renaissance thanks to his casting as Donald Trump on NBC's late-night staple, has heard from one member of the president's inner circle. "I'm not going to name names, but a cabinet member walked up to me at a restaurant in Manhattan — Manhattan, that's a hint — and he goes, 'I gotta tell you something. This thing you're doing is good, it's really good,' " says the 59-year-old actor. "He goes, 'I'll get fired if anybody quoted me saying this, but that's exactly what he's like when you do it.' "